I don’t know of anyone else crazy enough to do this, but EA (that’s Electronic Arts for you) and Need for Speed have announced the M3 Mission Sweepstakes, a Twitter-based contest with the main prize being an actual, honest-to-goodness BMW M3!

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If you have finished picking your jaw up from the floor, here are the contest details:

M3 Missions Sweepstakes

Date: Monday, Sept. 21st – Friday, Sept.25th
Time: All day!  12:00am PST 9/21 through 11:59pm PST on 9/25
How to Enter: Follow @NeedForSpeed to be eligible.  Check @NeedForSpeed and https://needforspeed.com/web/nfs-na/blogs/need-for-speed-news/-/nfsblogs/125474 every day next week for each mission. We’ll send them your way as well.  The more missions you complete, the greater your chances of winning the M3 and other great prizes.
Prizes: Copies of Need for Speed Shift, an Xbox 360 + wireless racing wheel, free EA games for a year, concert tickets, and more!

More Info

The more missions you complete, the greater your chances are of winning the M3. You will have a choice of either completing these missions the day they are posted (up to 5 entries per person if you complete all 5 missions), or doing them all at once, just as long as you get them in before 11:59pm PST on Friday, September 25th, 2009.

To be eligible to win the BMW M3, you need to follow @NeedForSpeed on Twitter, complete at least one of the five missions, and be 18 years or older & a resident of the United States.  All other rules and regulations can be found here – https://needforspeed.com/web/nfs-na/blogs/need-for-speed-news/-/nfsblogs/125474